Hamid R. Jamali

#PLOSONE: The pandemic and changes in early career researchers’ career prospects, research and publishing pra ... dx.plos.org/10.1371/journa…

If you are an #early_career_researcher (#ECR) in the #sciences or #social_sciences, we'd love to learn how the #COVID19 pandemic has affected your work life and attitudes towards scholarly communication. Please do this survey, funded by #SloanFoundation. utk.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9T…

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3/4 of the 140 academic journals that folded in the last decade served the arts, social sciences + humanities. The losses weaken the academic communities that formed around these journals, write @HRJamali + his @CharlesSturtUni / @UNSW team. bit.ly/3MpoeQG

140 Australian journals stopped publishing between 2011-2020 - 20% of the journals! This is a dramatic decrease - why was this? Read analysis from @HRJamali and colleagues Read #OpenAccess onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10… @ScienceChiefAu @CSIRO @ScienceAU

One-quarter of Australian journals are contract-published by international commercial publishers - most hybrid #OpenAccess - read more here onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10… @HRJamali @ScienceAU @ScienceChiefAu @CSIRO

Should we care a bit more about local/national journals and their declining number in Australia? 140 journals discontinued in the last decade due to funding, lack of support, publication drain ... (we analysed them & surveyed their editors) doi.org/10.1002/leap.1…

Australian journal publishing landscape: 651 journals belonging to non-profit orgs (56%) or unis (26%); mostly OA (40%); 2/3 self-publish & 1/4 published by int. com. publishers; good coverage of AHSS; 1/2 indexed in Scopus. doi.org/10.1002/leap.1…

EXCITING: our* study "Free for all, or free-for-all? A content analysis of Australian university open access policies" biorxiv.org/content/10.110… is featured in Nature Index story natureindex.com/news-blog/aust…. * Authored with @simonwakeling @MaryAnneKennan @HRJamali & @mmsarraf

PREPRINT NOW LIVE: biorxiv.org/content/10.110… by yours truly w colleagues Simon Wakeling, @MaryAnneKennan @HRJamali @mmsarraf Asks how much do OA policies in Australia represent a coherent & unified approach to delivering and promoting OA in Oz? (Spoiler alert: it's complicated)

"Is research with qualitative data more prevalent and impactful now? Interviews, case studies, focus groups and ethnographies". With Tamara Nevill. To appear in LISR and available here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

@Stew You can find a list of all 15 journals that are somewhat relevant to bibliometric etc here sites.google.com/site/hjamali/s…

Where's the best place to publish a data paper on Overton? Somewhere bibliometrics-y... think QSS is only research?

Published today! 'Open access in theory and practice'. @simonwakeling @david_bawden @lynrobinson Open access, of course! doi.org/10.4324/978042…

We have established Libraries Research Group at Charles Sturt and a few interesting projects are in progress including one on COVID-19 and public libraries librariesresearchgroup.csu.domains

Country differences in #scholarly_communication of #ECRs UK, USA, France, China, Spain, Russia, Malaysia, Poland doi.org/10.1002/leap.1…

#Cognitive_biases and concepts of #information_behavior doi.org/10.2478/dim-20…

Millennial researchers in a metric-driven scholarly world; Chinese are the most metric using nation, #ECR doi.org/10.1093/reseva…

"Children who experienced augmented storybook were better in retelling and answering comprehension questions"